You can find me on Twitter here: @gavingear 3D Builder Windows Store app was created to make loading, manipulating and printing 3D models easy and fun. Today, Microsoft has released a major update of 3D Builder that brings a host of new features and enhancements, including a new cloud printing…

This week kicks off a six-part series on location in New Orleans and will cover the enhancements around touch and immersive experiences in the new Office. Jeremy Chapman is joined by Tal Krzypow and Tim Bakke to show Office experiences across screens of all sizes – from phones to large panel…

Semantic Zoom is a touch-optimized technique used by Windows Store apps for presenting and navigating large sets of related data or content within a single view (such as a photo album, app list, or address book). This video shows examples of apps that use Semantic Zoom and provides an overview of…

WinPong is a revival of the classic Pong game from the seventies redesigned for the world largest tablet running on Windows 8. Swiss Evangelist Ronnie Saurenmann developed WinPong to demonstrate nicely how Windows 8 can be used by keyboard/mouse and by touch at the same time. The game was show cased…

For Windows 8, we built Internet Explorer 10 to be a first-in-class browser for touch. Not only did we want it to be fast and fluid with panning and zooming of the web you use today, but we also wanted to enable web developers to build exciting new experiences that take advantage of multi-touch and…

For Windows 8, we built Internet Explorer 10 to be a first-in-class browser for touch. Not only did we want it to be fast and fluid with panning and zooming of the web you use today, but we also wanted to enable web developers to build exciting new experiences that take advantage of multi-touch and…

Semantic zoom is a control used by apps in Windows 8 for displaying large sets of content in a truly user friendly format. Semantic Zoom is unique in that it provides an easy to navigate, touch optimized view of the data you present to users. In designing Windows 8 we wanted to ensure users wouldn't…

Learn about the great new HTML5 features available in Internet Explorer 10. This video focuses on how you can use HTML5 to enhance your client-server communications. For more information please see the topics at: Update your site to Web Standards See also related videos here: Touch-First Experiences…

In Windows 8, people who are blind can use Narrator to access their machines. This video discusses some additional design aspects on how you as an app developer can design your app to work well with Narrator. These considerations will help to ensure that people with vision impairments have a great…

When you are designing an app, it's important to think about all of the people who will use it, including those with disabilities such as visual, mobility, hearing, and cognitive impairments. In the United States alone, 36 million people have a disability and worldwide that figure is estimated…